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A Unique Institution and How it is Making Good
By Richard Fairchild
THE Y. M. C. A. Hotel in Chicago built at a cost of $1,400,000, 1,800 rooms, some of which
per night for as low as th cents, a few as high as seve
five cents. While primarily a commercial hotel, essentially is and must be in order to fill the peculii niche which it must occupy that m its mission may be fulfilled. f^
Thoroughly to understand that, I one must appreciate conditions in i large cities like Chicago. Chicago, for instance, located in the heart of the great Mississippi valley, the largest railway center in the world and the Mecca for thou¬ sands of travelers each day and hundreds of thousands each week of the year, is a field wherein a hotel of this character is vitally needed.
For many years before the Y. M. C. A. Hotel was built, the country boy was going to Chicago in greater and greater numbers. The city is always calling the country boy but Cliicago perhaps calls him more numerously and with greater power of attraction than any other city in the United States. The sons of farmers, rich and poor, the growing boy in the small village, the ambitious lad who wants to strike out for him¬ self and do big things—all these have been going in an endless procession to the "Great Central Market." About ten years ago L. Wilbur Messer, general secre¬ tary of the Chicago Y. M. C. A., after a survey of Chicago lodging houses, appealed to some of the philanthropic citizens of that city for the contruction of a modern hotel which would meet the needs of the incoming boy. Mr. Messer told these philanthropists that the country boy entering Chicago, in nine cases out of ten,
was compelled to go to the "flops" and poor lodg¬ ing houses of the downtown district and that, there¬ fore, his first contact with Chicago was with the crimi¬ nal element, the bum, and the woman of loose morals. Mr. Messer showed that it was imiiossible under these circumstances for some boys not to fall and to become vicious characters. The survey of the situation demonstrated that Mr. Messer's diagnosis was correct and within a short time a dozen of Chicago's wealthiest men had started a fund which resulted in the con¬ struction of this unique institution.
The Y. M. C. A. Hotel, Chicago, sheltered over 100,000 men during 1917. This magnifi¬ cent property is operated to provide under wholesome influences at nominal cost tem¬ porary lodging for the stranger in Chicago.
In 1917 there were nearly 500,- 000 registrants at theY. M. C. A. Hotel and the number of differ¬ ent men who were served during that period was approximately 100,000. This indicated an ' average length of stay of each J guest of a little more than four , days. Regarding the guest and his stay at the Y. M. C. A. Hotel there perhaps may be some mis¬ understanding. There is no tract- passing at the Hotel in Chicago, the clerks are not preachers, nor is there any direct religious ap¬ peal by the Hotel officials to the guests.
"We seek to attract, hold and direct, as may be needed, the worthy young man who is new to the city or a temporary registrant in the city," explained Ralph Weiidling Cook, executive secre¬ tary of the Y. M. C. A. Hotel. "Adequately to do this the Y. M. C. A. Hotel must be known to possess a wholesome atmosphere, an atmosphere that is at once dem¬ ocratic tosay nothing of Christian ii. its wholesomeness. That whole- ' some atmosphere is maintained without any straining or any ef¬ fort. We have all sorts and con¬ ditions of men at the Hotel. Should you take the traveling salesman, the merchant and pro¬ fessional man out of that Hotel, the boys, the very ones whom we most want, would themselves gradually cease to come here." Mr. Cook tellsthe story in a nut shell. The Y. M. C. A. Hotel must be a success commercially in order that it may be fully suc¬ cessful in its wholesome mission among visiting boys and young men. However, it is in no sense a hotel for down and outers; it does not desire to be such. It does desire to be a hotel where the boy from Iowa or from Montana, from New York or from Mississippi, no matter how far away from home he may be—will be wholly safe and will have an environment which the boy's mother herself would most heartily commend.
Each evening there is a lecture, entertainment or a moving picture show in the lobby of the Y. M. C. A. Hotel. Tlie attendance in 1917 at these entertainments aggregated 51,479. To this work some of Chicago's best talent generously contributed. There is a program of Sunday religious services (entirely voluntary in (Contiuued on pu^e 24.)

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A Unique Institution and How it is Making Good
By Richard Fairchild
THE Y. M. C. A. Hotel in Chicago built at a cost of $1,400,000, 1,800 rooms, some of which
per night for as low as th cents, a few as high as seve
five cents. While primarily a commercial hotel, essentially is and must be in order to fill the peculii niche which it must occupy that m its mission may be fulfilled. f^
Thoroughly to understand that, I one must appreciate conditions in i large cities like Chicago. Chicago, for instance, located in the heart of the great Mississippi valley, the largest railway center in the world and the Mecca for thou¬ sands of travelers each day and hundreds of thousands each week of the year, is a field wherein a hotel of this character is vitally needed.
For many years before the Y. M. C. A. Hotel was built, the country boy was going to Chicago in greater and greater numbers. The city is always calling the country boy but Cliicago perhaps calls him more numerously and with greater power of attraction than any other city in the United States. The sons of farmers, rich and poor, the growing boy in the small village, the ambitious lad who wants to strike out for him¬ self and do big things—all these have been going in an endless procession to the "Great Central Market." About ten years ago L. Wilbur Messer, general secre¬ tary of the Chicago Y. M. C. A., after a survey of Chicago lodging houses, appealed to some of the philanthropic citizens of that city for the contruction of a modern hotel which would meet the needs of the incoming boy. Mr. Messer told these philanthropists that the country boy entering Chicago, in nine cases out of ten,
was compelled to go to the "flops" and poor lodg¬ ing houses of the downtown district and that, there¬ fore, his first contact with Chicago was with the crimi¬ nal element, the bum, and the woman of loose morals. Mr. Messer showed that it was imiiossible under these circumstances for some boys not to fall and to become vicious characters. The survey of the situation demonstrated that Mr. Messer's diagnosis was correct and within a short time a dozen of Chicago's wealthiest men had started a fund which resulted in the con¬ struction of this unique institution.
The Y. M. C. A. Hotel, Chicago, sheltered over 100,000 men during 1917. This magnifi¬ cent property is operated to provide under wholesome influences at nominal cost tem¬ porary lodging for the stranger in Chicago.
In 1917 there were nearly 500,- 000 registrants at theY. M. C. A. Hotel and the number of differ¬ ent men who were served during that period was approximately 100,000. This indicated an ' average length of stay of each J guest of a little more than four , days. Regarding the guest and his stay at the Y. M. C. A. Hotel there perhaps may be some mis¬ understanding. There is no tract- passing at the Hotel in Chicago, the clerks are not preachers, nor is there any direct religious ap¬ peal by the Hotel officials to the guests.
"We seek to attract, hold and direct, as may be needed, the worthy young man who is new to the city or a temporary registrant in the city" explained Ralph Weiidling Cook, executive secre¬ tary of the Y. M. C. A. Hotel. "Adequately to do this the Y. M. C. A. Hotel must be known to possess a wholesome atmosphere, an atmosphere that is at once dem¬ ocratic tosay nothing of Christian ii. its wholesomeness. That whole- ' some atmosphere is maintained without any straining or any ef¬ fort. We have all sorts and con¬ ditions of men at the Hotel. Should you take the traveling salesman, the merchant and pro¬ fessional man out of that Hotel, the boys, the very ones whom we most want, would themselves gradually cease to come here." Mr. Cook tellsthe story in a nut shell. The Y. M. C. A. Hotel must be a success commercially in order that it may be fully suc¬ cessful in its wholesome mission among visiting boys and young men. However, it is in no sense a hotel for down and outers; it does not desire to be such. It does desire to be a hotel where the boy from Iowa or from Montana, from New York or from Mississippi, no matter how far away from home he may be—will be wholly safe and will have an environment which the boy's mother herself would most heartily commend.
Each evening there is a lecture, entertainment or a moving picture show in the lobby of the Y. M. C. A. Hotel. Tlie attendance in 1917 at these entertainments aggregated 51,479. To this work some of Chicago's best talent generously contributed. There is a program of Sunday religious services (entirely voluntary in (Contiuued on pu^e 24.)